Social Justice and Education

8:15-8:45 a.m. Registration
Tea and coffee provided

8:45-9:00 a.m. Conference Welcome, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room
Adam Nelson, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, School of Education

9:00-10:00 a.m. Breakout Session A: Student Presentations

Here’s What I’m Thinking #1
Presenters share preliminary ideas and receive feedback through audience discussion and written forms. 

• “Education in the Context of Displacement,” Antonella Pappolla (EPS) & Anthony Hernandez (EPS)
• “The effectiveness of parenting strategies on child development and the consequences for educational inequality,” Jiemin Xu (Economics) 
• “Living Indigenous Youth Purpose through Language, Land, and Culture: The Case of the Ho-Chunk Community,” Shiqi Shen (Civil Society & Community Studies) 
• “Approaches to drug-related violence in the urban margins: the case of Miravalles school in Mexico City,” Zaira Magaña (EPS) 

Panel: Education, Mentorship, and Employment (Hybrid Session)
The panelists will each present their work and then engage one another and the audience in conversation. 

• “Learning about Corporate America: Injustice Experiences during College Internships,” Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci (EPS)
• “Views and Suggestions on the Career Center from the Perspective of Chinese Undergraduate Students in the School of Education,” Xinyi Zhang (EPS)
• “KinEqT Mentorship Program:​ Graduate Student-led Initiative to Develop a Welcoming Climate and Provide Professional Development to Kinesiology Undergraduates,” Laura Prieto (Kinesiology) 

Panel: School Board Meetings as Sites of Contestation

• “Protecting the Youth? A Critical Policy Analysis of Educator’s Removal,” CJ Greer (ELPA)
• “Refusing Racialized Organizational Practices for Authentic Engagement: A Case Study on Black Community-Centered Engagement,” Virginia Downing (EPS)
• “Parental Rights and Student Identities: Managing Expressions of Gender and Sexuality,” Rob Timberlake (EPS) 

Panel: On Teachers and Teaching (Hybrid Session)

• “Adapting Teach For America to Taiwan: A Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship in a Rural Educational Setting,” Mike Yuchuan Shen (Global Studies in Education, Illinois)
• “Reconstructing Diversal Methodologies: Unlearning Colonial Pedagogy for A Just World,” Magna Mohapatra (Anthropology)
• “Ratchetdemics: A Model for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” Stacy H. Tran (EPS) 

Panel: A More Inclusive Education

• “A Call to Dignify Higher Education for Young Parents,” Kate Westaby (ELPA) 
• “Moving Special Education Towards Equity,” Deonte Iverson (ELPA) 
• “Older Adults’ Needs and Preferences for Learning Technical Devices,” Ziyan Zhou (EPS)

10:00-10:15 a.m. BREAK

10:15-11:15 a.m. Resisting Asian American Invisibility: The Politics of Race and Education, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room (Hybrid Session)
Dr. Stacey Lee, Linda Pheng, Dr. Choua Xiong
Moderator: Lisa Oyolu (EPS)

11:15-11:30 a.m. BREAK

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Breakout Session B: Student Presentations

Here’s What I’m Thinking #2 (Hybrid Session)
Presenters share preliminary ideas and receive feedback through audience discussion and written forms.  

• “Appropriation of culturally relevant pedagogy: Demystifying whiteness in the pursuit of critical consciousness in science education,” Curtis O’Dwyer (C&I)
• “Do we ask more than teachers can give?”, Janel Anderson (ELPA) 
• “Well-Being in Transition: Ethnoracial Identity, College-Going, and Well-being for 1.5- and Second-Generation African Immigrant Students,” Lisa Oyolu (EPS) 
• “Oddly Overlapping: HBCU‘s and For-Profit Universities as Neoliberalism’s Bad Actors,” Jacques Lesure (EPS)

Roundtables
Attendees choose to join a roundtable with a topic of interest to them. The discussant at each table will briefly introduce their chosen idea, issue, or theme, and then offer questions to spark spirited and creative discussion.

• “Cultivating A Successful Training Environment for Future International Scholars in the US,” Sin U Lam (Counseling Psychology) 
• “ESL Inequities in Education,” Madesyn Walker (English & Spanish) 
• “Conducting Open Records Requests,” Rob Timberlake (EPS) 

Panel: Safety and Defiance in Schools (Hybrid Session)
The panelists will each present their work and then engage one another and the audience in conversation. 

• “‘Luck’ as a Factor of Access to School Safety,” LaShanda Harbin (EPS)
• “The School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Look Inside,” Olivia Miller (EPS) 
• “Who Owns Discipline? A Poetic Inquiry of Arts Programming,” Cassidy Martin (C&I) 

Panel: Affirmative Action and School Choice

• “Early Affirmative Action and ‘The Order of the Misunderstood,’” James Meadows (History, EPS) 
• “Does Affirmative Action Impact Inter-Generational Mobility? Evidence from India,” Manisha Jain (Economics) 
• “Progressive White Parents’ School Choice Discourse: Reckoning with Privilege, Race, and Inequity,” Kelly Jensen (Rhetoric, Politics & Culture) 

Panel: Learning at What Cost? 

• “Gender (Re)Construction and (Mis)Education: A Throughline,” SJ Hemmerich (ELPA) 
• “Learning as Action? How White Racial Knowledge Limits Racial Equity Work,” Emily O. Miller (EPS)

12:30-1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15-2:15 p.m. Using Quantitative Methods to Promote Social Justice in Education: Examples and Reflections, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room (Hybrid Session)
Dr. Amy Claessens, Dr. Ran Liu, Dr. Taylor Odle
Moderator: Carla Z. Glave (EPS)

2:15-2:30 p.m.  BREAK

2:30-3:30 p.m. Breakout Session C: Exclusion and Belonging in Educational Spaces

The UW–Madison Public History Project: Challenges and Opportunities with Institutional History Projects
Kacie Lucchini Butcher, Director of the Public History Project
Co-presenter: Taylor Bailey, Assistant Director of the Public History Project 

Addressing Safety and Belonging in Schools: Lessons from a National Study of Educator Practices to Support Immigrant-Origin Youth, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room (Hybrid Session)
Dr. Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Boston College
Moderator: LaShanda Harbin (EPS)

3:30-3:45 p.m. BREAK

3:45-4:45 p.m. The Dual State: Criminalization and Protection in Education in the Americas, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room (Hybrid Session)
Dr. Diana Rodríguez-Gómez & Dr. Walter C. Stern
Moderator: Lina Rangel (EPS)

4:45-4:50 p.m. Closing